The JUST AI network <https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/just-ai/>presents a conversation with Sara Hendren, author of What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World(2020, Penguin, Random House), and Sarah Drinkwater, Director of Responsible Technology at the Omidyar Network, to explore ‘access’, with a focus on disability-led access, as a way to rethink the meaning and potential of responsible technology. Please join us! Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021 Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm BST Register here: https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/access-responsible-technology/ This conversation is chaired by Louise Hickman (JUST AI) and introduced by Alexa Hagerty (University of Cambridge). About the speakers: Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering. She is the author of What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World <https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Can-Body-Do-Built-ebook/dp/B082H35TV9>, a book which considers the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that emerge from disability-led design. Sara’s work includes collaborative public art, social design, and writing that engages the human body and technology, much of it around the condition of disability. Her work has been widely exhibited and is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York; her writing and design have been featured on NPR, in Fast Company, and in the New York Times. Sarah Drinkwater coleads Omidyar Network's Responsible Technology team, pushing for a tech ecosystem that's equitable as well as innovative. Previously, she built community products at Google and led Google's London space for early-stage founders working to democratise access to entrepreneurship. Through Atomico's angel program, she invests in community-driven solutions. As part of this conversation, participants will engage with Hendren’s new book, What a Body Can Do?: How we Meet the Built World <https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Can-Body-Do-Built-ebook/dp/B082H35TV9>(2020, Penguin, Random House), to consider the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that emerge from disability-led design. Hendren’s work turns our attention to a social model of disability, in which ‘the interaction between the conditions of the body and the shapes of the world that makes disability into a lived experience, and therefore a matter not only for individuals but also for societies.’ -- Dr Alison Powell Associate Professor, Director of MSc in Data & Society Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Director: JUST-AI Network on Data and AI Ethics Ada Lovelace Institute Twitter: @a_b_powell